Top Ten Movies of 2009Christine Champ Edition

Christine Champ, Dec 31, 2009
In 2009, sci-fi surpassed the genre, poetic passion blossomed, a fantastic stop-motion fox with Wes Anderson attitude delighted audiences, and Sherlock Holmes strutted his bad-boy side. Plenty of movies pleased both critics and mainstream cinema fans alike — which makes summing up the year’s standouts no easy ...

The Top Ten Movie Soundtracks of 2009

Drake Lelane, Dec 31, 2009
Any year that features films from music-oriented directors Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino is going to be a good year for soundtracks. Many of the films’ soundtracks this year were highly anticipated, with indie rock star power attached early on to films like The Twilight Saga: New ...

Readers recommend: Hangover songs

Last week was all about new beginnings. As you stagger home from welcoming in 2010, we want your pick of songs about the morning after
Ha-ppy Noo Year! My best wishes to you in 2010 written in my best New York gangster accent.
This week’s topic is, I am proud to announce, ...

Jon Savage on song: Beverley’s come to wish you an unhappy New Year

Full of sarcasm and sneer, Beverley’s debut single showed that not all 60s pop was light and fluffy
It’s that time of year again: the New Year’s Eve ritual of intoxication, to mark the passing of the old and the arrival of the new. Some people love it, some people hate ...

Zelda Rubinstein, The Underwear Bomb And James Cameron In Today’s Twitter-Wood

News that “Poltergeist” actress Zelda Rubinstein has been taken off of life support didn’t go unnoticed by horror movie fans in the Twitter-Wood community this week. The sad revelation caught the attention of both Richard Kelly and Jeff Katz (on his birthday, nonetheless), and I definitely echo those sentiments to ...

David Tennant On His ‘Doctor Who’ Mementoes… And When He’ll Be Back For A Cameo!

While much of the world is busy bidding farewell to 2009, “Doctor Who” fans will be saying a different type of goodbye on January 1 when series star David Tennant concludes his celebrated run on the long-running BBC science-fiction series. One of the most popular actors to ever play the ...

Looking Back On 2009 With The MTV Movies Team

And so we reach the end of 2009. It’s been quite a year for movies, hasn’t it? Records were broken, vampires continued to sparkle and the game was presumably changed. James Cameron showed the world that he still knows how to tell a tale. Neill Blomkamp and Oren Peli both ...

Happy New Year To You, Our MTV Movies Blog Readers

Good afternoon, everyone. Before the Aughts come to a close at midnight tonight, I just want to take a moment to thank you readers for your support and your interest in MTV Movies Blog this year. I started the job at the beginning of May, a few short weeks before ...

James Blunt is the decade’s biggest sellerand that’s a beautiful thing | Robin Turner

How can you not love a man with a nightclub called Everybody’s Beautiful in his basement in Ibiza?
As another set of end of decade statistics gets released there’s another angry mob ready to aim a heavy boot at the door of popular culture. Sadly they’ve arrived a little too late ...

Readers’ poll 2009: The results!

The votes have been counted and verified and we can now announce that, this year, you lot really did like a bit of Animal Collective
As the year draws to a close, the final word on the best music of 2009 goes to … you! Well, it does if you cast ...